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No. 2025: Smooth cueing

You are invited to incorporate the follow- ing words or phrases, in any order, into an entertaining piece of prose: queer, qui vive, Qatar, queasily, quod, quotient, quadrilater- al, quondam, quack, quark, quip, quasi. Maximum 150 words. Entries to 'Competi- tion No. 2025' by 12 March.